Anyone participate in political discussion forums?

[Starscream]

There's a political discussion section at the Panthers forum that I visit but it's pretty much name calling (all in good fun) and repetitiveness. Not much serious debate going on there.

[shark]

I applaud the bosses here for NOT allowing political debate at CA. I won't name names, but other boards that I frequent have political discussion forums, and the discussions get downright nasty. Whenever someone has to stoop to personal, ad hominem attacks, then they're simply showing their lack of knowledge of the subject, or lack if intelligence, or both.

[Starscream]

Originally Posted by shark

I applaud the bosses here for NOT allowing political debate at CA. I won't name names, but other boards that I frequent have political discussion forums, and the discussions get downright nasty. Whenever someone has to stoop to personal, ad hominem attacks, then they're simply showing their lack of knowledge of the subject, or lack if intelligence, or both.

The political section at the Panthers site pretty much is hardcore left vs. hardcore right, yet the entire section is a trash Glenn Beck site. Liberals think he is a nutjob and so do conservatives. It's kind of hard to have a serious political discussion when 90% of the discussions have to do with Glenn Beck.

[pnoon]

Originally Posted by andysutherland

The political section at the Panthers site pretty much is hardcore left vs. hardcore right, yet the entire section is a trash Glenn Beck site. Liberals think he is a nutjob and so do conservatives. It's kind of hard to have a serious political discussion when 90% of the discussions have to do with Glenn Beck.

Careful, Andy.
Let's not get into details of the politics or I'll have to shut this down. Feel free to share the details with the OP via PM.